Chapter 1220 Everyone Takes a Gamble
When Yan Yangyang saw his master taking action again, he couldn't help but look at the stall. All the calligraphy and paintings couldn't be understood at all. They were either placed in wooden boxes or delicate cloth bags. I couldn't figure out why Master was interested in them.
But there must be a reason for Master to take action.
It’s good to be able to listen to one-tenth of what people in the antique business say, and even most people are talking nonsense.
"Boss, since you said so, let me ask you, which of the calligraphy and paintings you bought yourself are authentic. I will either buy the authentic ones at the market price, or buy the fake ones at a very cheap price. "
Li Mo took out three black gold cards from his bag and shook them.
"We have money, as long as you have the original."
The young boss was a little dumbfounded by this. . . Well, if he really knew which painting was authentic, he wouldn't put it out on a stall and go directly to the auction house to bid on it.
He once took the calligraphy and paintings he dug out from home to an auction house for appraisal. The results were very gratifying. They were all authentic. If the paintings were auctioned at their auction house, they could also ask experts to issue authoritative appraisal certificates.
This made him overjoyed, but the auction house required him to pay various fees, such as publicity fees, storage fees, deposits, etc., which totaled over one million.
He has also been in society for a long time, and he is very familiar with this trick of paying money first, so he went home directly with the original work.
Then I visited several auction houses, with similar techniques. He was also clever, saying that he could sell the original work to an auction house at a price lower than the market price, or the auction house could introduce him to the buyer and pay them a high referral fee after the transaction was completed.
Obviously, the two parties did not reach cooperation.
Later, I followed others to set up stalls and got to know a few so-called experts, but after communicating with them, they couldn't tell for sure.
The secret word in the industry is that the family calligraphy and painting in your hands are most likely imitations, or works left by amateurs, and are not worth much money.
Li Mo showed them the actual situation of abundant funds, and now it depends on whether the boss has an authentic work to show.
"Sir, the calligraphy and painting passed down from our family have been authenticated by experts from several auction houses."
The boss said stubbornly.
Li Mo smiled and said, "You don't even believe what they say. Otherwise, you would have become tens of millions or even a billionaire. Would you still be setting up a stall here under the sun?"
The boss fell silent.
"We haven't opened them one by one, and we can't tell whether any of them are authentic. Both of us want to take advantage of it, or let's make a bet. I want them all in one bite, and you can open one that I can accept. price."
This is a big gamble, but no one knows who can take advantage. It all depends on God's will.
"There are a total of thirty-four calligraphy and paintings here, of which twenty-one are in cloth bags and thirteen in wooden boxes. I have just opened one, so I don't count it. The remaining ten thousand are in cloth bags and wooden boxes. There are 80,000 paintings installed.”
"It's high. The price you can buy for calligraphy and painting in cloth bags will not be higher than 2,000. I will give you 5,000 for one piece. As for the calligraphy and painting in wooden box, I will give you 50,000 for a total price of 750,000. I think. If you want to take a gamble on this business, I will pay now. Once I leave, I will not look back. Everyone is playing with the heartbeat."
Seven hundred and fifty thousand is pie in the sky for a person who has accomplished nothing and needs money urgently. The boss was very excited for a moment. He actually had great doubts about the calligraphy and paintings found at home. If they were really valuable antique calligraphy and paintings, how could his parents just put them in the basement casually.
So he subconsciously believed that those calligraphy and paintings in wooden boxes were most likely ordinary calligraphy and paintings. If each one could be sold for 50,000 yuan, it would be a huge profit. Moreover, the calligraphy and paintings I wholesaled were only 800 pieces, and if I resold them for 5,000 pieces, I would still make a huge profit.
"let's go."
Seeing his hesitation, Li Mo immediately turned around decisively.
"Deal, I agree to make a bet with you and sell you all 750,000."
Li Mo turned around again and said with a smile: "Miss Yangyang, you can pay for this."
Yan Yangyang nodded and said: "Okay, what we're playing with is the feeling of heartbeat, let's play with a big one."
The money was received quickly. After receiving the text message, the boss clasped his fists in excitement and said, "Thank you, happy cooperation."
Then he ran quickly.
Li Mo shook his head and spent 50 yuan on a large plastic bag from a stall not far away. Then he put all the calligraphy and paintings on the stall into it, carried it on his back and continued walking forward with Yangyang.
"Master, the calligraphy and painting here..."
"I don't know whether the calligraphy and painting are authentic or whether they were made by famous modern masters, but one of the wooden boxes containing the calligraphy and painting is made of red sandalwood, and the rest are made of Hainan huanghuali wood. Although the surface is painted There is a layer of light gray wood paint and a layer of patina, but if you look carefully you can still see the wood texture, and I can also faintly smell the scent of sandalwood."
Yan Yangyang suddenly realized that even if all the calligraphy and paintings were worthless, the wooden box made of red sandalwood could make back the original investment, and even make a small profit.
"Master, why don't you put them back in the car first? It would be weird to keep them on your back like this."
"Boss, Miss Yangyang, I'll deliver it, I'll deliver it." Shao Tou trotted over with three packed things, his face full of excitement.
"Everything worked, not bad."
"Hehe, I took advantage of the boss's blessing."
Li Mo handed the big plastic bag to the shaver: "We will meet at the end of the alley."
"Okay, I'll send it back first."
"Master, let's continue walking forward."
"kindness."
Then he walked all the way to the end of the alley. Not to mention that Yang Yang didn't see anything suitable, even Li Mo didn't find any hidden treasures. However, after visiting two alleys, he still gained a surprising amount, especially the rosewood box containing a masterpiece from the Song Dynasty, because the strange pupils had a particularly strong reaction to it.
The two of them waited for a while and saw Sha Tou trotting over in a hurry, bringing three coconuts: "Boss, Miss Yangyang, drink some fresh coconut juice to quench your thirst."
"Brother Shave, you are very dedicated in what you do. Are you married?"
"Not yet. I have only retired for less than a year. I don't want to date a girlfriend so soon. I will work hard with my boss for a few years first."
Li Mo took a big sip of coconut juice and said with a smile: "Hey, if you have a chance to meet someone good, you should seize the opportunity. Otherwise, I will have to bear the responsibility if you remain single. That will never work."
"No, boss, that's not what I meant."
Yan Yangyang laughed and said: "Brother Shave, there are so many female employees in my master's company. Didn't they organize the entire planning event for the grand collective wedding this year? Maybe you will have a chance next year when you return to Yandu. , you should seize the opportunity to take a look and see if there is anything you like. I'm sorry, so I'll let my aunt introduce it to you."
Sha Tou scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "It's not urgent, I'm not in a hurry yet."
"Let's go into Shengjing Antique City and see if there are any good things waiting for us to pick up in those shops."
Li Mo drank the coconut juice, threw the shell into the trash can not far away, and then followed Yang Yang into the first floor of the antique city.
It's still quite hot outside after being exposed to the sun for a long time, but once inside it cools down. There are shops one after another inside. There are several shops near the entrance that specialize in gold jewelry and jade. There is a beautiful woman with exquisite makeup standing at the door of each shop. There are quite a few customers looking at gold in the store. Come in and out, business here is good.
"Master, why don't we go directly to the second floor? Most of the antique shops are on the second floor."
"Don't worry, go check out those stores."
There are also porcelain shops, sculpture shops, strange stone shops, etc. on the first floor.
"Okay." Yangyang took the lead and walked into the porcelain shop. The shop area was not large, probably only forty or fifty square meters. There were two rows of ancient bookshelves on both sides of the wall, on which were placed pieces of various exquisite and beautiful items. It's like porcelain. There is a desk at the end of the shop. A woman in her fifties is watching a TV series on the computer. She doesn't know what sadistic plot she is watching. She actually sheds tears while watching it and wipes it with tissue from time to time. With tears.
"Hello everyone, take your time and take a look first."
The female boss didn't forget to say hello to Li and Mo, but she had no intention of getting up and continued to be immersed in the plot of the TV series.
Yan Yangyang felt speechless. She picked up a red plum vase from the shelf. The workmanship was very delicate and flawless. When she turned it over to look at the inscription at the bottom, she subconsciously grinned softly and handed it to Li Mo. .
The inscription is made of blue and white four-character double-row seal script "Gu Yun Xuan System". The seal script is Li Mo's favorite Zhongshan seal script. Among all seal scripts, the calligraphy form is the most unique and beautiful, and each character is an art.
Li Mo also smiled slightly. He didn't expect to see porcelain made by Gu Yunxuan here. He looked at four different styles of porcelain in a row, all of which were made by Gu Yunxuan. The shapes of these porcelain are imitations of antique porcelain, and none of them are made-up. Both in terms of craftsmanship and appearance, they are flawless. With the Gu Yunxuan brand, the price of its porcelain has also skyrocketed, and now averages five to six thousand per piece.
Some people believe that the three words "Gu Yunxuan" are of immeasurable value, so the porcelain made by Gu Yunxuan also has a very high potential for appreciation in the future. Even if it does not appreciate in value, it will still be very high-end when placed at home.
Some people are worried that custom-made porcelain imitating Gu Yunxuan will appear on the market. Li Mo has thought of this a long time ago, so he directly and solemnly declares that only those purchased from Gu Yunxuan stores and stores authorized by Gu Yunxuan will have the brand name "Gu Yunxuan" Only the porcelain made is genuine, and the rest are slightly fake.
If anyone suspects that the porcelain made by Gu Yunxuan that he purchased at an authorized store of Gu Yunxuan is defective, he can directly send the porcelain to Gu Yunxuan for appraisal with valid evidence. If there is any problem, he will be solely responsible for it.
It is precisely the attitude of the person in charge that makes it even more obvious that the price of porcelain made by Gu Yunxuan has been increasing. Similar porcelain on the market is only a few thousand more expensive, which is difficult to compete with the porcelain made by Gu Yunxuan.
The two masters looked around and silently left the porcelain store. There was an authorization certificate hanging on the most obvious wall of the store. There was no problem with the certificate.
"Master, are there many such authorization letters?"
"Not many. There are about a hundred cooperative antique shops across the country. The person in charge of this is Zhou Yang from the Gu Yunxuan Head Office in the Magic City. You have never seen him. He is a man of work."
Li Mo took the lead and walked into the Qishi Store diagonally opposite. The owner of the store was a young man. He was concentrating on playing online games and muttering something from time to time, as if he was calling his teammates pigs.
Don’t the bosses here want to do business well?
Li Mo no longer paid attention to him. He slowly looked at the various strange stones placed on the ancient shelf. After looking at more than a dozen pieces, I stopped and saw that there were still jadeite stones on the westernmost floor of the shelf.
The rough jadeite stones are not large in size, the largest one is only larger than a basketball. Judging from the surface, they look good. They are stones from old pits.
The difference is that all the strange stones in front have price tags clearly marked on them. However, there is no price for these pieces of jadeite rough, but the price is mentioned as negotiable.
With a sweep of Li Mo's eyes, he could see that jadeite could be found in the raw stone, and it could look like a waxy jadeite, and the water quality was not bad. The jadeite flesh carved out of five rough stones can be worth seven to eight hundred thousand after processing.
The strange stones displayed in this shop are just average. The only ones that catch your eye are the five raw jade stones. If you take them away, you can also extract some waxy jadeite. You can process it into jadeite jewelry and wear it yourself, and then sell it to a jewelry company or auction. That’s okay.
"Shaving your head, go and talk to the little boss about how to sell those five stones?"
Li Mo gave the opportunity to shave his head. At this time, Yan Yangyang also walked to the rough stones and squatted down. He took a closer look and already knew what they were.
"Little boss, do you want to sell those stones too?"
The little boss, who was fascinated by the game, didn't even raise his head to look at it, and then said in a loud voice: "Everyone has a clear price, no counter-offering."
"Little boss, I mean those five stones without price tags, are you here to sell them too?"
The shaver said patiently that if the boss asked him to buy it, then there must be nothing wrong with the stone.
"That's the raw jade stone I bought from the southern jade market. It's not the kind of stubborn waste stone on the road. If you just want to inquire, I'll pay 200,000 yuan for each piece. If you are interested in buying it, my dad will tell you before leaving. The base price is 60,000, and there is no room for any other negotiation.”
There are a total of five jadeite rough stones, each worth RMB 60,000, so a total payment of RMB 300,000 will be required. He was very decisive when he shaved his head, nodded directly and said: "Deal."
After paying the money, Shatou borrowed a trolley from the boss and returned the five jadeite stones to the trolley.
"Yangyang, we won't go into the last carving shop. Let's go directly to the second floor to have a look." Li Mo glanced around, saving some time. As the master and apprentice walked up to the second floor, they could smell the faint scent of sandalwood in the air.
There are many more people shopping on the second floor than on the first floor, and there are also many people doing business. But generally speaking, the most tourists are shopping at the street stalls outside the Antique City. They also know in their hearts that just buying a shop in the Antique City is The cost is also high, so the same type of things cannot stand up to the cheaper ones outside.